at the Sorbonne, an academic and political homage to Samuel Paty – Liberation

Two years after the assassination of the 47-year-old teacher, this Saturday at the Sorbonne he was paid tribute, with in particular the awarding of the prize in his name to the classes that worked on the theme of freedom of expression.

“To teach is to explain and not to be silent” : the words resound in the Richelieu amphitheater of the Sorbonne crowded with university students, this Saturday. On stage is Mickaëlle Paty, the younger sister of the history and geography teacher, 47, beheaded on October 16, 2020 by a Chechen-born terrorist for showing caricatures of Mohammed in her civics and morality lesson to a class fourth. As if to better illustrate her point of view, the youngest of the clan, who works as a nurse-anesthetist, chose to take part of her brother’s course. Just what she made him die eleven days after giving it away. She wanted to show the caricatures of Charlie Hebdowhich he presented to the students. He was refused him. Instead, he obtained that the journalists and cartoonists Riss and Coco, who survived the massacre of 7 January 2015 in Charlie Hebdo , are present. They are seated in the front row, next to Samuel Paty’s parents, Bernadette and Jean, former school managers, and by the Minister of National Education, Pap N’Diaye.

There is Antigone in Mickaëlle Paty: she watches fiercely over the memory of her brother, and that no one spits on his grave. “IS…